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[[Truth in Television]], since real-life prodigies typically have emotional maturity better fitting their actual age than their intellectual level.
Compare [[Adorably Precocious Child]]. See also [[Ping
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== Anime and Manga ==
* [[Child Prodigy|Ten-year-old high-schooler Chiyo]] from ''[[
* Negi of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. He's beginning to grow out of the naivete though.
* Shinra Sakaki from ''[[
* Hiiragi from ''[[Hanamaru Kindergarten]]'' is very intelligent and knowledgeable for her age but still enjoys children's activities such as going down slides, and playing dress-up.
* While whether [[Child Prodigy|Hiroki Sawada]] of ''[[Detective Conan]]: [[Non
* Rebecca Miyamoto from ''[[Pani Poni Dash!]]'' is an MIT graduate and a teacher [[Improbable Age|at age ten]]. Doesn't stop her from throwing tantrums or hiding behind things whenever she gets scared or upset.
* Alice from ''[[
* Diamond from ''[[Pokémon Special]]''. He likes to eat and watch robot anime (singing its theme tune in an attempt to bolster his confidence when he's scared), but he is shown to be very thoughtful and sensitive at times- he's associated with Mesprit, the legendary Pokemon of emotion, and delivers heartfelt speeches that convince legendaries to fight alongside him.
* Edward Elric and, to a lesser extent, his little brother Alphonse USED to be this in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', before all of the [[Break the Cutie]] kicks in.
* Sister Maria from ''[[Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai]]'' shot her way through the education system and ended up as a high school teacher at 10 year old. Also, she ended up as an insufferable, foul-mouthed [[Bratty Half
* Sieglinde Sullivan from ''[[Black Butler]]''. She is a brilliant child genius who has little understanding of the real world. When she tries to act [[Fille Fatale|like a mature woman]]. she fails to a hilarious degree.
== Literature ==
* Charles Wallace Murray from ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]'' and its sequels is an example of this trope.
* For that matter, [[Mark Twain|Huckleberry Finn]], making this [[Older Than Radio]].
* ''[[Discworld]]'' has a ''rodent'' version. [[
* ''[[Elantris]]'': Daorn and Kaise have elements of this. [[Brandon Sanderson]] [[Word of God|says]] this snuck in as a mild criticism of [[Orson Scott Card]]'s depictions of hyperintelligent children in [[Ender's Game]].
* [[Temeraire]] is a ''[[Our Dragons Are Different|dragon]]'' who manages to be this.
* Mark Clifton's "Star Bright" has Star Holmes and Robert Howell, ultra-intelligent toddlers who invent a way to teleport themselves through time. They use this ability to play hide and seek. Star's father also tells us that Star's intelligence doesn't prevent her from enjoying dolls, fairytales and playing grownup.
* Micah Sanders from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''. The audience first sees him fixing his laptop as he tells his mom, "The memory board's bad," and he can talk to machines. Yet Micah reads comic books religiously and uses them as a guide, making him something of a miniature [[Ascended Fanboy]], and he idolizes his father.▼
▲== Live Action TV ==
▲* Micah Sanders from ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]''. The audience first sees him fixing his laptop as he tells his mom, "The memory board's bad," and he can talk to machines. Yet Micah reads comic books religiously and uses them as a guide, making him something of a miniature [[Ascended Fanboy]], and he idolizes his father.
* Shane at the start of ''[[Weeds]]'' shows aspects of this but has already lost a lot of innocence (part of the [[Backstory]] is that his 40-year-old father died of a heart attack right in front of him) and grows out of the last of it over the course of the first couple seasons.
* Lex from ''[[Flight 29 Down]]''.
* ''[[Lost]]'': The young {{spoiler|Benjamin Linus}} who was definitely extremely intelligent and introspective and possessed the prerequisite dash of naivete, but very quickly lost his innocence due to his {{spoiler|chronic abuse at the hands of his father}}, which eventually culminated to his {{spoiler|seeking out the Others}} and {{spoiler|starting him down his path of [[Affably Evil|Affable Evilness]] and [[Magnificent Bastard
* Jill Petterson in the ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'' episode "The Tale of the Final Wish" qualifies, with her superstitions and obsessions with fairy tales, as opposed to the other kids her age. Until [[Be Careful What You Wish For|her wishes come true in a bad way]].
* Franklin from ''[[My Wife and Kids]]''. He is a genius, outsmarting pretty much the entire cast. But at the "where do babies come from" department, he still believes that pregnancy comes from plant seeds. Justified, since he was purposefully left out of Sex Ed classes.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[Peanuts]]'': Linus Van Pelt, Charlie Brown's best friend. He has great insight into some situations and a very high intellect such as being able to precisely quote ''any'' passage of Biblical scripture, but he also believed in [[
** As an infant it was even worse. As Charlie Brown struggled to balance one card on top of two others to start a house of cards, Linus used the rest of the cards to make a Gothic cathedral.
* Calvin of ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' waxes philosophical about the nature of the universe...to his stuffed tiger. While pretending to be a space cadet. Or a superhero. Or a jungle explorer. Or a private eye. Or a dinosaur. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Calvin's mother in a punchline, "How can one kid be so smart and yet so dumb at the same time?"
* ''[[Mafalda]]'''s greatest concerns are: the terrible ordeal of the starving kids in Biafra, the permanent tensions between USA and the Soviet Union, the armed conflicts in the Third World, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and Mom's terribly hideous soup]].
== Video Games ==
* Tails of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' fame. Most depictions stick solely with one [[Wise Beyond Their Years|extreme]] or the [[Bratty Half
* Vivi from ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]''.
** Eiko, aged six, meanwhile, has been living on her own as [[Team Mom]] to a bunch of moogles. While she's clearly an incredible child (not to mention her white magic), she's very naive, due to her age and lack of interaction with adults.
== Web Comics ==
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* Gin from ''[[Jackies Fridge]]'' is four or five, acts more like a ten-year-old, and comes out with insights like [http://jackiesfridge.comicgenesis.com/d/20001201.html this].
* Carrie from ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'', sometimes with just [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=157302the right question at the right time.]
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'': Edd is depicted as a genius whose maturity makes him the [[Only Sane Man]]. Yet the nature of some of the show's more risque jokes often completely escapes him.
* ''[[Time Squad]]'': Otto is has a fairly complete and detailed knowledge of all of history. And yet he still plays with crayons and coloring books.
* The title characters from ''[[Phineas and Ferb]],'' both of whom are creative and technical geniuses, but use their talents more for their own amusement than anything else. They also manage to regularly figure out the solutions to other characters' problems, while still maintaining an oddly childlike sense of naivete.
** At least [[Once an Episode]], somebody will ask Phineas if he and Ferb are too young to be doing whatever they're doing. Phineas always responds: "Yes, yes we are."
* Stewie from ''[[
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* Froggo from ''[[Histeria
* Arguably Dib from ''[[Invader Zim]].'' Usually a [[Straight Man]] spouting [[Cassandra Truth
* Ike Brovlovsky from ''[[
* Kit Cloudkicker of ''[[
* Amberley of ''[[The Dreamstone]]'' has moments of this [[Depending
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